Pontifical Mass celebrating St. John Henry Newman

All are welcome to attend a Pontifical Mass in celebration of Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890): an English theologian and poet whose remarkable journey brought him from Anglican ministry into the Catholic Church as a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, and eventually as a cardinal. The liturgy will be celebrated by the Most Reverend Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. The homily will be preached by the Most Reverend Nelson J. Pérez, Archbishop of Philadelphia.

Bishop Lopes will celebrate Mass according to 'Divine Worship': the missal used by the Personal Ordinariates. The 'Divine Worship' Missal is a form of Mass fully authorized by Rome, which brings the best of the Anglican tradition of worship in the English language from the Book of Common Prayer, as well as the Anglo-Catholic ceremonial tradition of the English Missal, into the full communion of…